The American Human: Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum to Pope: Shut the F**k Up on Climate Change.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum to Pope: Shut the F**k Up on Climate Change.

If I were you, I'd just tell him to blow it out his ass. People
respect tough talk. He wears a goddam robe, for chrissake!

Bush, Santorum, Jindal, and Rubio are all science deniers and Catholics. Here comes Pope Francis poised to say that global warming is man-made and morally wrong, especially because it will fall hardest on the poor. Sounds pretty Catholic to me.

But not to those GOPers. Let's see how this works itself out. Oh, and most Latinos are Catholic, and many are pretty poor. Don't hold your breath for their votes after you trash the Pope on climate change. Just sayin'.

Note. Chris Christie is a Catholic but has said that climate change is real and humans contribute to it, so he's not completely craven.

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My General Principles

1. Civilized societies require the rule of law.
2. Science is my preferred method for examining and understanding reality.
3. Religion is superstition.
4. An educated society is a healthy society.
5. Democratic governments are by their very nature socialist.
6. Market economies are by their very nature capitalist.
7. Markets are not (entirely) efficient or rational and thus require regulation.
8. Don’t confuse politics with public policy.
9. Civil discourse requires rational argument, even if yelling or stomping your feet or name-calling is more fun.
10. If you consider making stuff up a viable tactic, you are disallowed from civil discourse.
11. Puritanism is America’s original sin.
12. Income redistribution is good for society, hoarding is not.
13. Everybody, from time to time, needs help.

About the American Human

The American Human is written by Calvin Ross, a retired teacher who at various points in life has been a musician, woodworker, restaurateur, narrator, English teacher in Japan, novelist, technology journalist, and private tutor to Japanese children here in the U.S.

Happily residing in the wine country of Sonoma County north of San Francisco, Calvin has lived in the Philippines, the Netherlands, and the aforementioned Japan, as well as in Chicago, Colorado, Georgia, and many different towns in California, including, of all places, the Mojave Desert.

Calvin, you may note quickly, is a liberal progressive who doesn't think being called a socialist is all that bad, especially since he sort of would like living in Denmark if it weren't so cold. He blogs because he can.